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Definition of Bushwhacker
1. Noun. A disparaging term for an unsophisticated person.
2. Noun. A Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War.
Definition of Bushwhacker
1. n. One accustomed to beat about, or travel through, bushes.
Definition of Bushwhacker
1. Noun. (American English) One who travels through the woods, off the designated path. ¹
2. Noun. (Australia) A person who lives in the bush, especially as a fugitive; a person who clears woods and bush country. ¹
3. Noun. (US historical) A guerrilla (of either side) during the American Civil War. ¹
4. Noun. (dated) Someone who attacks without warning. ¹
5. Noun. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bushwhacker
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bushwhacker
Literary usage of Bushwhacker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents of the War: North and South : 1860-1865 by Frank Moore (1866)
"She makes a good home bushwhacker ; aids and abets freely and voluntarily in all
the depredations of her warring accomplice. She feeds and clothes him, ..."
2. History of the Western Reserve by Harry Gardner Cutler, Harriet Taylor Upton (1910)
"... famous bushwhacker. At one time, after he had chased Quantrell fifteen miles
and found where he had taken refuge in a house, Mr. Hall immediately ..."
3. John Gayther's Garden: And the Stories Told Therein by Frank Richard Stockton (1902)
"... II THE bushwhacker NURSE THE Daughter of the House, her fair cheeks a little
flushed, walked rapidly down the broad centre path of the garden, ..."
4. The "A. L. A." Index: An Index to General Literature, Biographical by American Library Association (1892)
"bushwhacker,24. — The coming man will drink .... Fiske.J. Tobacco, 82. ...
Curios, of toil, 1:42. Wines.German.. ..Cozzens. bushwhacker, 165. ..."
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